Huntsville gazette., 1887-03-12
An OPEN LETTER
Ts Col. Sam X. Lowrey.

] Sir -
I You ablished the following in your
J paper SAT urday last -
/. 1STSVILLE ALABAMA
/ We visit. this little city last week on
business OF a :private nature. 1t has a
/ fine spring, /. 1se mountains and sa ubri
Gus climate. Booming with kind
ness. but has nothing else 10 honor is
except the Sta, e Normal S:hooi, taught
/ by Prof. w. H.. Council principle, witli
I Misses Snoecratt.. siibbs and Wise, his
able courteous an Vi refined assistants, anel
the young men a ud Molaen that are dew
ing IN the mines OF intellectual train
| ing for future usefulness. Hes ued by
the Peabody Literary under Prof. Wm.
| Hopkins doing lively and noble " 2rk
/ THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.
Deserves more than passing MOTIF
not for its brick building or lands. b,ui
| for patriotic and noble teachers in 1t
named. They are DEVOTED to best inter .
ests OF the Black race. They are not
run by ring Tor their own exclusive
benefit, but tor al the race. Their all
lilty IS superior TO any set OF teachers in
North Alabama. The people OF Hunts~
| Vile need more OF the same sort in all
their schools, some Of the teachers in the
other city schools ale too low and yray>
! elling to feed hogs, and children entrnst.
ed to them will only be degraded. Then
! take the best
| HUNTSVILLE CITY SCHOOL.
| Not a school building, but the kind of
school tau .ht In the colored church, run
| by Sectarian and foreign whites, who are
indifferent to the progress of the blacks.
i unless run by them, and then the school
| taught by political clique OF colore,l
| locals, who can face the wind in all the
poll ical direction. The black citizens
will never get school building as long
! as they hover over the roost, and secur.
the five lOaves and two fishes to he
dispensed in salaries
Ii the honorable officials will come |
down to the booming capital OF Alabama /
| they vii see few respectable school
buildings that they may take pattern
| from and show the world that they can |
progress. Some OF the black men on !
! board and especially Prof CASTOR the |
most able member on it, should urge the |
moss back members to come and see |
Birmingham, and learn that they do not |
imbble all the wisdom of the world |
We hope to see Huntsville out OF her i
lethargy as majority OF its citizens are |
Black our element, for which we have |,
the warmest sympathies and hope Sans
uel X. Lowley, in Southern Freeman, of |
Birmingham.
We repub.lsh eutire the above gross
insult and libel ON tn, teachers and !
peop'e of H lntsville,. for several rea-
sons.
First and primarily to denounce as
false and Sian lerous the unmauly and
h. athenish attack on part of the |
faithful te; chers of the city, including
ladies of iriepro caable ch .racter
Secondarily to expose the animus of
the sl,nderer AMI his fir. lulent
deMlinss.
We may rest the fir proposi'io by
the III challenged st stement that ALL
OF the teachers in "the other city
schc OF" Rust and the city schools
bear unbIemished regulations and
move in the best circles Of society in
this community, which esteems them
as honorable and upright
Now who is their accusel?
None other tn n the man Samuel
R Lowery, who for many years has
been dead beating" mis- way North
and S ,uth flcbing money from
benevolent people under the f.lsc
plet. nse Of having a Silk Maj ufac-
tory and Industrial school in Hunts
Vile. Was not tLis bare feed fraud
an d robbery? A prominen: silk cnltur
ist or .Gov,rme1t agent once visited
Huntsvill an | made search for the
so called Silk M.nufac .ory. His
diss lst and anger was so great as to
be- almost incon rolable upon being
sho yn the few worms and coc ons in
the family bed room the Alpha and
0 mega of .Lowery's,,grest 81 k Manns
fact ny and Industrial institute!
II the benevolent hearted people
whose pockets hove been thus picked
were so minded, could they not pr s.
ecute this man f,r obtaining money
under false pretenses and land him in
the penitentiaryg
The step from tbi. c.ime to tlat OF
defaming the fair names of ladies and
slandeling gentlemen i an easy graz
dati0n.
But again we may extrac, s,me OF
the poison from this serpent' Col() |